Button



(No Model.)

A. J. SHIPLEY, H. T. SPERRY & T. R. HYDE, Jr.

BUTTON.

No.379,91Z. Patented Man 20,1888.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

.ALFRED J. SHIPLEY, HENRY T. SPERRY, AND THEOPHILUS R. HYDE, JR,

OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,912, dated March 20, 1888.

Application filed December 13, 1887. Serial No. 257,770. (No model.)

To all whom it: may concern:

Be it known that we, ALFRED J. SHIPLEY, HENRY T. SPERRY, andTHEoPHILUs R. HYDE,

J r., of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a .new Improvement in Buttons; and we do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be 10 a full, clear, and exact description of the same,

and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure l, a side view of the button complete; Fig. 2, a central section, in perspective,

1 of the body of the button; Fig. 3, a central section, in perspective, of the tubular shank; Fig. 4, the rivet and button together and the flange of the shank interlocked with the wall of the button.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of buttons which are provided with a tubular shank adapted to pass through a socket or eyelet first introduced in the material to whichthe button is to beattached, the tubular shank having a shoulder upon one side to rest upon that side of the socket, the tubular shank extending through,

.so as to be upset upon the reverse or other side of the socket as a means for securing the but- 5) ton. Such a construction of button and fastening is the invention of George 0. Schneller, patented October 18, 1881, No. 248,511. In open-face buttons to be attached in accordance with the said patent the button is cen- 3 5 trally pierced, and an eyelet-like shank introduced through the central hole in the button, so that the flange of the shank may rest upon the face side of the button, and then, inserted through the eyelet in the garment, the tubular o portion-of the shank is upset upon the reverse side.

The object of our invention is to firmly secure the shank portion of the button into the body of the button, so as toprevent its escape 5 therefrom and make it substantially a permanent part of the button; and it consists in a button having a central or concentric depression formed in its-face side to produce a corresponding projection upon the rear side, com- 5o bined with a flanged tubular shank inserted through a central opening in the said depres sion, leaving the flange of the shank upon the face side and the said flange interlocked with g the walls of the recess of the button, as more fully hereinafter described. 5 5 v The button is made from metal, and as represented in Fig. 2.- In the center from the face side a depression, a, is formed,whichproduces a corresponding projection, 12, on'the rear side. This projection serves to raise the button from the surface to which it is attached, and so as to leave a space between the button and the said surfacefor the part of the garment which is set over the button. Centrally in the depression an opening, d, is made, through whichthe fastening is to be introduced.

The fastening device consists of a shank, which is composed of a tubular. body, 6, and with a laterally projecting flange, f, around one edge. The diameter of this body corre- 7o spends substantially to the opening (1 through the button, and the diameter of the flange f is somewhat greater than the diameter atthe bottom of the depression a. The walls of this depression are flaring, so that it is of smaller diameter at the bottom.

The'shank is introduced, as represented in broken lines, Fig. 4, with the flange on the face side. The shank is then forced to the bottom of the recess, and because the flange is of larger diameter than the inner surface of the recess the metal of the walls is expanded as the flange arrives at the bottom of the recess, which expansion causes an interlocking of the metal of the flange with that of the button, so as to firmly secure it in place and prevent its accidental removal.

The button is applied in the usual manner by introducing an eyelet through the garment at the point where the button is to be attached, the eyelet having an internal diameter corre-- spouding to the tubular shank and then upsetting the projecting end of the shank down upon the reverse side of the eyelet, as in the patent before referred to. r We claimv The herein-described improvement in that class of buttons which are provided with a tubular shank, consisting in the body of the button constructed with acentral recessupon its face forming acorresponding projection on by its larger diameter interlocked with the its rear side, the said recess having a concensurrounding surface of the recess, substantially tric central opening through its bottom, GOIII- as described.

bined with a tubular shank having a flange 5 upon one end, the said flange of larger diame- I fig g fi g ter than the bottom of the recess in the button, THEOPHILUS R HX'ZDE, JR

the tubular shank introduced from the face side of the button through the opening in the Witnesses:

bottom of the recess, and the flanges of the JAMES H. FILLING, 1o shank forced to the bottom of the recess and M. L. SPERRY. 

